Lon i HOW ABOUT us whites taking a turn manning the blockades this summer with _ our Indian fellow citizens —- just to bring the Victoria - and Ottawa birdbrains .who’ve landed us all in this - Mess to their senses? Make no mistake, both whites and Indians are equal victims of their idiocy. . And unless it’s halted, the bone- headed arrogance. of Mike Harcourt and Indian Affairs Minister John - ~ Cashore ~~ cheered on by their -. federal counterparts Jean Chretien : and Ron Irwin —~ now threatens to - turn B.C. into an apartheid-era ‘.° South Africa. : Nobody would ever deny that B.C.’s native Indians were treated abominably by white settlers 130 .. years ago. Equally true is that no non-native British Columbians. alive today bear any personal guilt. -"* J Nevertheless, most of them do: “feel a moral obligation to redress those long-ago wrongs — by rec- !, opnizing traditional native rights ... that are basic to preserving native . ' “culture, by ending welfare depen-' © dency and by creating new eco- “nomic opportunities for both Indian bands and individuals in main- _, Stream society, But NOT with _Facist “homelands.” » * What, then, have the political lunatics we ‘elected provincially -and federally done.to further this . healing process? -:, They’ve.told Indians they have . aboriginal title to land — knowing y full well that aboriginal title (as. distinct from rights) has been ~ f “~ rejected by both the B.C, Supreme: 4 ‘Court and the B.C: Appeal Court.’ “+ -They’ve proclaimed Indians’ ‘inherent right to self-government as “nations” — a concept rejected -\Canada-wide with the defeat-(in B.C. by nearly.70%) of the Charlotietown referendtim. ! So small wonder Indian bands, ‘having been told so often from'on . high that they are “nations,” start to ‘act as such by imposing — with ° + blockades — their own law in defi- e ance of Canada’s law, Now, with current or threat- ‘ened blockades already at half a- S _ dozen B.C. trouble spots — and - more promised i in a “long, hot summer” — the NDP brains trust “in Victoria has suddenly switched pot Se = j Be, ; Tate BAAR ARN ADEE IAT AY ER BLY TH CREE BOSE, BRUNIA LIT BEE IECRN AS EEEAL Sa EOS EU CAGE PBR AION AURAL PY AMEE EET AOR RALLY TH MRR LEAL EN, TREES to panic mode. \ Harcourt, Cashore and timid Attorney General Colin Gabelmann shy away from enforcing Canadian law at illegal roadblocks. | At the same time —— equally ter- rified of a white backlash at the looming election -—— they've — stamped down on Indian gambling plans and are now showing signs of feet-dragging on land claim negoti- ations. | Confusion reigns. ‘Politically sophisticated native - leaders are, ofcourse, fully aware * of the limits of the possible in final - deals between B.C.’s 3% of status Indians and the other 97% of the population. .. But you can’t blame them for : temporarily making bargaining hay ‘of the nonsense so far served up to us all by the present bunch of white politicians, / Without the latter Pve a hunch f _fatives and non-natives might reach equitable, amicable and real- istic settlements fairly easily. Maybe if we joined the. summer blockades, we could do a reality check —— unimpeded by any more gobbledygook frorn Victoria or Ottawa! b, BUILD YOUR LIBRARY at the West Van Memorial Library Book and Record Sale Saturday- Sunday, June 24-25, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m... Happy birthday today, June 21, to North Van's Joan Bain and | June Martin ... And many happy: returns of Friday, June 23, to North “Van's Bob Griffin. ‘WRIGHT OR WRONG: Most of life’ s. troubles come from saying’ “yes” too soon and “no” too late. BLOCKADE, whic: 1S WAY Pifeepent FROM A PSTLATCH CAASE THE MEDIA COVERS IT HEY ARE chronic meddlers’in the marketplace and in the private lives of ’ British Coluinbians. They are dedicat- ed to bureaucracy ans! more government. They are four-star social engineers. They have got to go. The NDP socialists in. Victoria just keep coming up with more and better ways to push pleasantness down B.©.”: throat, regardless of -the impact it has:on democratic principles . and free market competition. Fresh from. delivering . its Elections Act reforms, which will. limit individuals or groups to ‘spending no more than $2,000. advertising for or. against’ a. candidate. or party. in an election and will prevent media from publishing poils during campaigns;: fresh from delivering their latest push’ to’ upset the balance of employer-empioyee rela- tions in the form of Bill 29, the Employment : ; Standards Act, the socialists are now. ready-" ing ‘another ‘round. of. changes: to: the province’s human rights laws to further skew. the human rights playing field. °°.’ They want to establish a Big Brother B Cc. Human Rights tribunal and advisory. council” to wring more tears from the pubiic: via the: now ‘entrenched human rights: complaints machinery. It will have. the power. to initiate human rights complaints: without the incon-:' venience of having to wait for a complainant to step forward.) in other words, a self-perpetuating bureaus: : .eracy dedicated to. creating, considering and® prosecuting social complaints. =. Ontario’s voters just sent Bob Rae’ s social ; : ist mob packing back ‘east for lesser. crimes against society.’ We need. to. do the | same with | Mn. Harcourt’s mob, before it’s too late. © Trixi Agrios = |. Promotions Manager ° . 885-2131 (218) -- Valeria Stephenson Classified Manager 986-6222 (202). 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